reduced
Definition
- Adjective:
- Made smaller or less in size, amount, or degree: Describes something that has been decreased or diminished from a previous state.
- Well below normal, especially in price: Describes something, typically a cost or price, that is significantly lower than the standard or original amount.
Usage Examples
- Adjective:
- The company announced a reduced budget for the next quarter. (The budget has been made smaller in amount.)
- She bought the dress at a greatly reduced price during the sale. (The price was well below the normal amount.)
- After the diet, his weight was significantly reduced. (The amount or degree of his weight was made less.)
Advanced Usage
- "in reduced circumstances": Having less money or a lower social position than before.
- After the business failed, the family lived in reduced circumstances.
- "reduced to silence/tears": Made to become silent or to start crying.
- The shocking news reduced him to silence.
Variants and Related Words
- Reduce (verb): To make something smaller or less in size, amount, or degree.
- We need to reduce our energy consumption.
- Reducible (adjective): Capable of being reduced.
- The problem is reducible to a simple equation.
- Reduction (noun): The act of reducing or the state of being reduced.
- The store is offering a 20% price reduction.
Synonyms
- Decreased: Made less.
- Diminished: Made smaller or less important.
- Lowered: Made less high in amount or level.
- Discounted: Offered at a reduced price.
Related Phrasal Verbs (from the base verb "reduce")
- Reduce something to something: To change something into a simpler or more basic form.
- The conflict was reduced to a simple misunderstanding.
- Reduce someone to something: To force someone into a worse state or condition.
- The criticism reduced her to tears.
Related Idioms
- "reduced to a skeleton": Become very thin.
- After his illness, he was reduced to a skeleton.
- "reduced to rubble": Completely destroyed.
- The earthquake reduced the city to rubble.
Adjective
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well below normal (especially in price)
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made less in size or amount or degree
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